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View synonyms for blowhard

blowhard

/ ˈbləʊˌhɑːd /

noun

  1. a boastful person

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. blustering or boastful

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The late Dixie Carter’s Julia Sugarbaker is a proud Georgia liberal who, in one of the show’s incisive monologues, lambastes a right-wing blowhard advocating for inserting prayer into schools.

From Salon

If you think legislative sausage-making is tedious now, imagine this: a bunch of blowhards on the Senate floor, droning on and on, endlessly debating the chamber’s rules.

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Those other countries don’t seem to have the same proportion of crass blowhards in their political structure as the U.S.

Before examining the natural disasters that have afflicted these blowhards’ own backyards, it’s proper to note that this isn’t California’s first encounter with political shortsightedness on this majestic scale.

In August, Trump sat down for an "interview" with Musk that was really more a hard-to-follow discussion between two blowhards that went on for over two hours.

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